Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry comprised of three phrases.
Traditional haiku uses 17 syllables (5:7:5) but contemporary haiku in English often ignores this rule. A haiku is typically about nature, the earth and the natural world and are designed to be thought-provoking. These original haiku poems are by Anthony Rutledge and are mostly written in the contemporary free style format.
There are over 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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camping
the silence in
the nearness of dawn
camping
each speck of a Galaxy
replaced by another
open tent
green and brown caterpillar
in a beak
open tent
as shadows move
out of the shade
open tent
the leaves the rain puddle
takes from the wind
camp fire
our tent’s shade
joins the mountain
camping
an afterimage of the crow–
where she watched me
open tent
light of dawn
the magpie’s worm pulls back
camp site
a patch of burnt bush
wears waving new leaves
camping
our Milky Way
on the edge… seeing within
open tent
squeezed from a husk
the moth dilates her wings
open tent
how blue is the lake
changed to skylight
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